Songwriter: Christina Amphlett Tom Kelly Billy Steinberg
Producer: Lennie Petze Cyndi Lauper
[Verse 1]
I lived in your shadow
I drove your car
You thaught I belonged in your four walls
I was never your bunny
I was never your pet
[Pre-Chorus 1]
When you threw me out the window
I landed on my feet
Yeah, you threw me out the window
Like a, like a, like a cat
[Chorus]
Hey mister, you can never own me
I only let you hold me like a cat
And mister, you can never know me
I only let you stroke me
[Post-Chorus]
Like a, like a
[Purring]
[Verse 2]
You thought I'd be purring
Curled up by your fire
Don't want to be kept for your desire
You said I should be happy
But it only ,made me sad
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And when you could never tame me
That made you mad
No you could never tame me
Like a, like a , like a cat
[Chorus]
Hey mister, you can never own me
I only let you hold me like a cat
And mister, you can never know me
I only let you stroke me
[Bridge]
You rescued me, I didn't wanna be saved
I got tired of your mission
Every positon, woah-oh
[Pre-Chorus 1]
When you threw me out the window
I landed on my feet
Yeah, you threw me out the window
Like a, like a, like a cat
[Chorus]
Hey mister, you can never own me
I only let you hold me like a cat
And mister, you can never know me
I only let you stroke me like a cat
Hey mister, you can never know me
I only let you hold me
[Outro]
No, you never can own me
Like a cat
No, you never can own me
Like a hat
No, you never can own me
Like a cat
I lived in your shadow
I drove your car
You thaught I belonged in your four walls
I was never your bunny
I was never your pet
[Pre-Chorus 1]
When you threw me out the window
I landed on my feet
Yeah, you threw me out the window
Like a, like a, like a cat
[Chorus]
Hey mister, you can never own me
I only let you hold me like a cat
And mister, you can never know me
I only let you stroke me
[Post-Chorus]
Like a, like a
[Purring]
[Verse 2]
You thought I'd be purring
Curled up by your fire
Don't want to be kept for your desire
You said I should be happy
But it only ,made me sad
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And when you could never tame me
That made you mad
No you could never tame me
Like a, like a , like a cat
[Chorus]
Hey mister, you can never own me
I only let you hold me like a cat
And mister, you can never know me
I only let you stroke me
[Bridge]
You rescued me, I didn't wanna be saved
I got tired of your mission
Every positon, woah-oh
[Pre-Chorus 1]
When you threw me out the window
I landed on my feet
Yeah, you threw me out the window
Like a, like a, like a cat
[Chorus]
Hey mister, you can never own me
I only let you hold me like a cat
And mister, you can never know me
I only let you stroke me like a cat
Hey mister, you can never know me
I only let you hold me
[Outro]
No, you never can own me
Like a cat
No, you never can own me
Like a hat
No, you never can own me
Like a cat
more tracks from the album
From the album
- A Night to Remember (1989)
Cyndi Lauper popular songs
- Time After Time
- True Colors
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun
- She Bop
- All Through the Night
- The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough
- I Drove All Night
- When You Were Mine
- Money Changes Everything
- He’s So Unusual
- Lies
- Searching
- Disco Inferno (Borris and Beck Roxy Dub)
- Say a Prayer
- At Last
- Minnie and Santa
- Echo
- Hat Full of Stars
- Unabbreviated Love
- Hymn to Love
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Walk on By (S.A.F.’s Walk to the Dance Floor Club mix)
- Shine (Illicit mix)
- Broken Glass